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WILLIAMSON ACT CANCELLATION FINDINGS <br /> FOR BUCKEYE RANCH PROJECT <br /> BACKGROUND STATEMENT <br /> The property subject to this application was originally <br /> part of a larger land grant parcel. Over the intervening years, <br /> the flattest, least forested portions were cleared and levelled <br /> for agriculture use, and much of the developed land was sold until <br /> the family holdings were reduced mostly to the most forested, most <br /> undulating, most flood-prone portions referred to as Brovelli <br /> Woods. Small portions on the South were levelled and developed <br /> for vineyards and small grains; the balance grazed, or in the case <br /> of the bottom of Tracey Lakes, were intermittently "dry farmed" to <br /> a forage crop, such as Sudan grass, which was fed to the cattle. <br /> Whenever the accumulated run-off in Jahant Slough didn't overwhelm <br /> the drainage capability, the lake bottoms were drained and <br /> planted. <br /> In the late 1980s, successive deaths in the Brovelli <br /> family created an inheritance tax problem which caused the family <br /> to attempt to sell the "unproductive" portions of the property. <br /> The State of California was interested in acquiring a portion of <br /> the property for a park, but, restricted to "appraised value, " the <br /> State could not offer sufficient funds to solve the family's <br /> inheritance tax problems. The family turned to private parties <br /> interested either in further agricultural development or <br /> residential development of the property. Flood control <br /> improvements on the Mokelumne River and drip irrigation <br /> Wm Act Cancellation -1- <br /> June 8, 1993 <br />